Tips and ideas
There are many ways you can get involved in the World's Greatest Shave.
Involve your friends and family
- Put a price on your head and encourage your friends and family to sponsor you.
- E-mail your friends, family, workmates and neighbours to tell them about your shave.
- Make it an event by holding a barbeque or lunch and auction the pleasure of shaving your head.
- Take 'before' and 'after' photos and e-mail them to friends.
Involve your business and workmates
- Challenge other stores, state offices or departments.
- Put a price on your Chief Executive's head and encourage your business to match it.
- Send a personalised e-mail from My Shave Page to ask for support.
- Ask for on-line donations from your offices interstate or overseas. Use the e-mail facility on My Shave Page to send them all the details they need.
- Create your own poster with a 'before' photo.
- Stage your shave on Friday lunchtime or during after-work drinks.
- Hold a shave event in a meeting room, staff room, pub, hotel, board-room or outside.
- Stage an event in a nearby open-air venue with a sausage sizzle and drinks.
- Hold a ‘shave or save’ campaign where you are sponsored to either keep or lose your hair – sponsors decide!
- If everyone is wearing the colours in their hair, it may be a good idea to have a colouring breakfast to start off the day.
Involve your school
- Encourage your teachers, principal or school captains to shave or colour during a special assembly.
- Set a target for your whole school. For example, raise $200 and one teacher shaves, raise $500 and all the teachers shave, raise $1,000 and the principal shaves too! The amounts are up to you!
- Go colour crazy by holding a Crazy Hair Day. Charge a donation for joining in.
- Provide a lucky dip, raffles, rewards or incentives for those who participate or raise the most money
- Hold a ‘Crazy Chin’ Day – pay $2 each to wear a pair of eyes on your chin and mimick our chin characters.
For the day
- Organise helpers and hairdressers in plenty of time.
- Consider having helpers assist with setting up, guiding participants, or acting as a Master of Ceremonies.
- Remember clippers, disinfectant for clippers, colour spray or wax, brooms, garbage bags, mirrors, extension cables for clippers, chairs, posters and signs.
- Don't forget to take 'before' and 'after' photos!
